Re: 945 or G31?

Obviously G31. Price difference is minimal. G31 supports 800 BUS RAM well as support for Core 2 Quad is present in G31. You are more future proof with this board. And since you are getting Gigabyte, there are much better overclocking options than any Intel board.

Re: 945 or G31?

Yeah u can also buy G31 but if I were in your place den I would have bougth d G41 cause if somehow anytime my external gfx card goes down den d G41 would give me good support dan G31 as it has Pixel shader 4.0, Vertex shader 4.0 support,T & L support,DX 10 support where G31 has only Pixel shader 2.0 support,no vertex shader support,not T & L support,no DX 10 support which are definitely needed 2 play old/new games....................

Re: 945 or G31?

G41's GFX is far more better than G31 .... I got both of them in my home....Compare to G41.. G31 is a crap...G41 s price is about 4000-4200 tk as i remember..G41 supports Pixel Shader* 4 where G31 support P.S 2* (Partially)

Check for yourself http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_chipsets
About Intel GFX ( G31 got GMA3100 Gfx and G41 got Intel X4500) Compare them...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_GMA
You will get a crystal clear idea .... And better go for PCI Gfx Card...Dont rely on built in Graphics Card .... You might be able to run some games using build in gfx bt not in high quality mode...U ve to play on normal on low quality mode.....Kinda annoying ....

Yeah u can also buy G31 but if I were in your place den I would have bougth d G41 cause if somehow anytime my external gfx card goes down den d G41 would give me good support dan G31 as it has Pixel shader 4.0, Vertex shader 4.0 support,T & L support,DX 10 support where G31 has only Pixel shader 3.0 support,no vertex shader support,not T & L support,no DX 10 support which are definitely needed 2 play old/new games....................

G31 actually supports Pixel Shader 2.0 Not 100%...It support partially....Even many games requires Pixel Shader 2 does not work properly in G31 ....Pixel Shader 3.0 is a feature of this Chipset but it work only on some rare cases ....

Intel G31 chipset uses exactly the same graphics engine of Intel G33 chipset, called Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3100. This graphics engine runs at 400 MHz and is DirectX 9.0 (Shader 2.0), has only two pixel shader units and no vertex shader units (this task is performed by the CPU). As you can see, the graphics engine from both G31 and G33 is outdated, using a technology from two generations ago.

Re: 945 or G31?

Not for built in GFX...G31 itself is a crappy motherboard compare to G41....& afaik price of G41 is not that much than G31... So why u go 4 old one rather than new model....

Going 4 G31 is waste of money n going 4 945 is rampage waste of money......I did mistake of buying G31 once upon a time.... Somedays ago my PCI card (9800GT) crashed....after that the only games i was able to play wth GMA 3100 of G31 was Dota n AOE 2/3...Grrrrrrrr

Re: 945 or G31?

Not for built in GFX...G31 itself is a crappy motherboard compare to G41....& afaik price of G41 is not that much than G31... So why u go 4 old one rather than new model....

Going 4 G31 is waste of money n going 4 945 is rampage waste of money......I did mistake of buying G31 once upon a time.... Somedays ago my PCI card (9800GT) crashed....after that the only games i was able to play wth GMA 3100 of G31 was Dota n AOE 2/3...Grrrrrrrr